Unexpected money

A lot of you have probably already heard about Poker Blue. They had some fantastic freerolls here recently where the prize was an expense-paid trip to play in the Legends of Poker tournament. That generated quite a bit of buzz for them and several people began promoting them.

Anyway, I decided to check it out myself, but then I saw that to participate in the freeroll, you had to make a $100 deposit first. Normally, I would probably go ahead and do that, but just coming back from Florida, I didn't feel like I could spare the cash at the moment. But I registered anyway, so that my chosen username, "evilbilly," wouldn't be taken if I decided to come back and play. I didn't even bother to download the software.

Well, I forgot all about it after that, mainly because I was running so good at Poker Room lately and wasn't interested in playing anywhere else at the moment. About 10 days later, however, I received an email from Poker Blue asking me to take a survey. The message said that they had noticed I had registered but didn't create a real-money account, and they wanted to know why. If I would just click on a link and take their survey, they would reward me by putting $25 in my account. Best of all, there were no play requirements attached to the money; I could cash it out immediately, if I so desired.

So, I thought I would share this little secret with my readers. I know a lot of people are always on the lookout for no-deposit bonus offers, and this is one that I'm certain most people know nothing about, since it isn't a regular offer. I don't know if they will still be doing it or not, but if you're looking for free money, it's worth a shot to simply visit the Poker Blue website and register. Don't download the software or deposit any money. Just wait a couple of weeks and see if they make you the same offer. If not, well, you're not out anything except about two minutes of your time.

When you do go, be sure to click my link. After all, I've just given you information that could give you a free $25. Here it is once more -- Poker Blue.

Since I got the free money, I decided to give them a try. I have to say I'm not overly impressed at the moment, but that could change. My biggest problem with them right now is game selection, and that's only really a problem because they haven't got a whole lot of players yet. When I've signed on there, the number of players has been between 600 and 1,000, but it seems like they're almost all limit players. I've checked them several times over the past few days, and only twice have I seen any no-limit games, and only once were the stakes low enough (.50/1.00) for me to afford. (I know, I know ... it's free money, but I'm still not about to sit down in a $2/4 game with $25.)

And now for something complete different

Here's a view from the other side of the poker-playing world -- the frustrated, running-bad side. I know I've been where this guy is now and, even though I've been enjoying a pretty good run of late, I know I will likely be joining him soon.

But really, this is one of the funnier posts I've read on RGP in quite a while. Enjoy:

An open letter to a fish

You know who you are even though I cannot remember your name. We were playing at the 25c NLHE online ring games last night at Hollywood Poker, I am sure you remember the hand.

To refresh your memory, I was playing tight and raise UTG to 1.00. MP (the table bully) raises to 2.50. You smooth call in the BB with your double gapped suited hand, something like T7s as I recall. Yes I know you were getting a discount to call but what were you thinking? Did you really think your hand had any chance facing not just one but two raises?

I raise to about 12.00 all-in. MP calls and is also all-in. Now you smooth call. Did you realize that your implied odds were exactly 0 and that your odds of catching a flush by the river were about 15:1? Did you consider that one or both of your opponents might actually have a hand or at least one card higher than T?

Although the hands were not yet shown, when a K flopped with one of your suit, did it occur to you that someone might actually have a pair or god forbid a set at this point?

When you caught the the backdoor flush on the river, how did it feel when you saw my hand with the set of kings that you busted? Did you feel any guilt or did you just have a feeling that your (inset profanity) hand was going to catch a couple of miracle cards? I am sincerely interested in your response as I always aspire to become a better player. Thank you.

With respect,

John A. Fish

P.S. Does anyone now how to remove an embedded fist from a window without severing an artery?

Did I mention pocket kings earlier?

Looking back, this wasn't really a monumental hand or anything, certainly nothing worth posting a hand history about. But at the time, it was hilarious.

A little history: The previous two hands I had worked cher55 over something fierce. And I guarantee she left the table thinking I was worst player she's ever seen, but luckier than hell. But she made several key mistakes each time that ended up giving me all her money. She had only sat down five hands earlier with $25. As you can see, she was already down to $3 when this one came up.

Two hands earlier, I had a 45o in the SB. She was the BB with AKs. Nobody raised ahead of me preflop and I called the extra 10 cents. That's pretty much a given, especially with a 2-3 chip blind structure (actually more like 3-5 here, but you get the point). Regardless how sucky your cards are, it's always worth completing the small blind if there's no raise, especially with a lot of limpers giving you outstanding odds for the few times you get lucky. She then raised a quarter, the minimum. Everybody called. The flop came Q-high, but gave me a gutshot, and she bet another quarter. Everybody else folded, but the pot odds were right for me to call. On the turn, I missed my gutshot, but I paired my 4. She bet another quarter. I knew right then that she had absolutely no piece of the board, but I was still open to danger, and I couldn't completely rule out a pocket pair smaller than the Q. But as long as she was willing to just bet a quarter, I was calling. The river was a blank, she bet another quarter, I called and won the hand with my pair of 4s.

Obviously, her mistake that hand was playing so weakly. You don't just min raise with AK preflop, and certainly not AKs! You push that puppy hard, and if it's raised ahead of you, you reraise. Plus she continued making min bets all through the hand, signalling to me that she had nothing except the faint hope I would fold, but not the courage to make me do so with a stronger bet.

Next hand, I had A9s on the button and decided to raise it up 4xBB in the hopes of either taking the pot, or at least narrowing the field. Two people called, including cher55, who held a K6. The flop came K-high, giving me absolutely nothing. But I decided to represent anyway, so I bet $3, roughly the size of the pot. She flat calls, and the other guy folds. The turn is another blank, and I bet $6 into a $9 pot. She flat calls again. Finally, I get lucky and river an A. This time I bet roughly half the size of the pot, $10. She thinks a long time and finally calls and I drag the pot, leaving her with $3.

She made two huge mistakes on that hand:

1. She called a raise with K6, plus she was out of position in every way possible, with several people still to act behind her and me to act behind her on every round of betting. If you're going to do that, plan on an early retirement from your poker career, with no pension to fall back on.

2. She check-called the entire way. Had she led out at the flop with even a standard size bet, I would have been out of there. Had she check-raised me, I would have been out. Instead, she tried to play it cute and/or weak, allowing me to pass her up on the river. Okay, maybe she was unsure of where she was because of her shitty kicker (which is a good argument against playing crap like K6 -- supposing you actually catch a piece of it, what the hell do you do then?). But had she played back at me on the flop, she would have gotten a good idea of where she was in the hand and either (a) forced me out and taken the pot, or (b) gotten more information earlier that would have allowed her to lose the hand much more cheaply than she ultimately did.

And then the very next hand, as Vince Van Patten would say, I was dealt a real hand. I felt no need to make anything more than a standard raise preflop, because I knew I had just tilted her bad and all of her chips were coming in. To my delight, she moved all-in, and then the fellow behind her reraised on top of that. I just called, happy to take more chips in later rounds of betting.

Texas Hold'em $0.25-$0.25 NL (real money), hand #1,160,345,183
Table Nikosia, 11 Aug 2005 10:40 PM

Seat 1: i am run ($20.25 in chips)
Seat 2: Jitlest ($14.95 in chips)
Seat 3: rbdavis3 [KD,KS] ($59.15 in chips)
Seat 5: cher55 ($3 in chips)
Seat 6: BNinja12 ($18.25 in chips)
Seat 8: cdegit544 ($2.80 in chips)
Seat 10: amun-ra ($4.25 in chips)

ANTES/BLINDS
cdegit544 posts blind ($0.15), amun-ra posts blind ($0.25).

PRE-FLOP
i am run folds, Jitlest folds, rbdavis3 bets $1, cher55 bets $3 and is all-in, BNinja12 bets $5, cdegit544 folds, amun-ra folds, rbdavis3 calls $4.

FLOP [board cards QC,2D,KH ]
rbdavis3 checks, BNinja12 bets $4, rbdavis3 bets $10, BNinja12 folds.

TURN [board cards QC,2D,KH,KC ]

RIVER [board cards QC,2D,KH,KC,3H ]

SHOWDOWN
rbdavis3 shows [ KD,KS ]
cher55 mucks cards [ 9S,AC ]
rbdavis3 wins $17.40, rbdavis3 wins $8.95.

SUMMARY
Dealer: BNinja12
Pot: $27.40, (including rake: $1.05)
i am run, loses $0
Jitlest, loses $0
rbdavis3, bets $15, collects $26.35, net $11.35
cher55, loses $3
BNinja12, loses $9
cdegit544, loses $0.15
amun-ra, loses $0.25

Hmmm ... now that I've looked back over everything, it looks like I've somehow screwed up my account of position. I must have missed a hand or two somewhere, but it's too late for me to go back and try to figure it out now. I think there must have been a hand between the first two I wrote about and the last one. I'm am fairly certain my account of position the first two hands is accurate, if not absolutely, then relatively.

Things that make you go, "WTF?"

You just gots to love the fishies.

In a $25 no-limit I get dealt KK in the big blind. UTG player raises the 25¢ blind to 50¢, an action which really gets on my nerves whenever I see it. Who the hell folds to a minimum raise? Why bother? Anyway, after he is called all the way around the table (well, maybe one or two people folded), I raise it to $2. UTG and one other player call and we see a flop, which is my worst nightmare, because it has an A. Being first to act, I decide to lead out betting. I bet roughly half the pot, $3, and both of them take forever making up their minds. In fact, after the first one called, I got distracted and, when I came back, assumed the other one folded. The turn is a blank, and I make a weak $4 bet, even though I knew I should bet much stronger. First guy calls, and then I see that the second one hadn't folded either, and he also calls.

Holy crap! I figure I'm in deep doodoo at this point. I had been thinking that maybe UTG had a smaller pocket pair, but with two people calling $9, surely to god one of them has a weak A, at the very least. The river is dealt and is most certainly not a K, so I figure I have no choice but to give up the hand. I'm thinking I've probably been slow-played the entire way by AA. I check, and I'm ready to fold to any strong bet. Surprisingly, both players check behind me. Even more surprisingly, the pot is pushed to me after I turn up my pocket kings.

I'm happy, of course, but I'm even more puzzled. What the hell were they calling with? They both mucked their hands, so I call up the hand history to see (Poker Room is cool that way). Turns out one of them had a Q-10 and the other had a 10-7 (there was a 10 on the flop).

As Iggy is wont to say, "Oh, the humanity ..."

Just a few hands later I look down and see KK again. This time I'm UTG+1 and UTG has already folded. I make the bet $1 (4xBB) hoping to get one or two callers and no A on the flop. I can't help but laugh when the next four players behind me flat call my dollar in rapid succession, as if they had their auto-call buttons checked. Then the player directly across the table from me makes the bet $5. Everyone folds to me, and then I face a decision. I'm definitely staying in to the see the flop, but I don't have much of a read on this person, other than he's played pretty solid (he's up $15). I'm a little worried about being out of position and the prospect of running up against AA in this spot, so I elect to just call. Inexplicably, so does the guy behind me, but everyone else folds and we're down to three going into the flop.

The flop comes 10-high with two hearts, much to my relief. I check, as does the guy behind me. As I wait for our raiser to act, I decide that if he makes a strong bet, he definitely has a high pocket pair, which I'm already 99 percent certain of, and is trying to chase off any flush draws. He does as predicted and moves all-in for a $35 bet. I have $36 and change. I am truly terrified of AA now. But something doesn't quite ring right with this bet. Had he bet half his stack, I would think definitely AA. But since he went all-in, I'm thinking he wants to chase off more than just the flush draw. He wants the hand over with immediately. I also have to rule out him flopping a set, because if he had a pocket pair of 10s or lower, he most likely would have called my initial raise and hoped for a friendly flop, rather than reraising. I'm fairly certain I have this hand locked up, even though the size of the bet really has me worried, so I call.

He had JJ.

I dragged an $82 pot.

In a quarter game.

The cards have truly been running good for me the last few days. Last night I sat down and played for 90 minutes, which is about my usual between TV and bed. In that hour-and-a-half, I managed to catch AA three times (and won all three!), pocket pairs higher than anything on the board three times, and flopped sets with 33 and 77.

And then there was this one funny encounter when I ran into a guy who pushed all-in with A5 when I was holding AQ. Afterwards, he typed, "Lucky bitch," into the chat box. That kind of burned me up a little. I'm not one who makes a habit of tapping the aquarium, but I've grown weary of taking crap off of people, especially when they fault me for being the beneficiary of their stupidity. So I had to reply, "Yes, I was lucky I was born smart enough not to push all-in with A5." His reply was priceless:

"They were suited, dumbass!"

I said nothing more and prayed he took my silence as validation of his play.

It's a sign of something, but what?

There's a lot of action in the online poker industry these days, and I'm not quite sure what it means. First, we saw River Belle Poker shut down and all of their players get sent to The Gaming Club. Then the same thing happened last week to Lucky Nugget Poker. Of course, all three were managed by Belle Rock Gaming, which said in a statement that they were collapsing their poker rooms into one brand for competitive reasons. I suppose that makes sense, but it also seems like the type of action a troubled company might take to cut costs.

Then the announcement came this week that Noble Poker, one of the more successful new sites, is getting swallowed up by Empire. And further behind the scenes, unless you happen to be an affiliate, Absolute Poker dumped the company managing their affiliate program, Income Access, in order to strike out on their own.

With all of this movement taking place, I can't help but think that the online poker market must be reaching a saturation point. Yes, there are more players right now than ever before, but there are also many, many more poker rooms than ever before. The competition is ridiculous, with signup bonuses, reload bonuses, recurring bonuses and other promotions climbing ever skyward as the sites all try to cannibalize each other's players. The sheer competition for players these days makes me think that a lot of these sites are having difficulty maintaining a comfortable number of clients. That's all good for players, though, as we're presented with ever more lucrative perks for our business.

But there's got to come a point when the bubble bursts, and I'm thinking that it may be near. Sure, we're still seeing the number of poker sites increase, with seemingly a couple new sites advertising in Card Player every issue. But, as in the case of Noble Poker or the Belle Rock sites, we're also seeing quite a few sites merge and combine, or as in the case with Absolute, cut costs.

But say I'm correct. What does it mean? Well, I don't think it means online poker is in jeopardy. The top sites are still attracting top dollar business, and they'll continue to do so for as long as they continue to be responsive to their clients' needs. And the players aren't going anywhere. I think that once the general public grows tired of poker and it loses its current fad status, the player pool will shrink some, but there will still be plenty of opportunity for the successful sites to do good business.

But there will be losers. First, the players will lose as the smaller sites either disappear or get swallowed and there are fewer lucrative signup offers available.

Second, affiliates such as myself will probably see our business dry up considerably. With fewer sites and fewer and smaller bonuses available, we will have less to offer and I think a lot of players will stop hopping and pick a site and stick with it. Of course, there will still be money to be made from the long-term players we sign up today, but we will see fewer and fewer new signups as the player pool begins to contract. Those who are most successful in the future will be those who are most successful at recruiting players today and who are able to recruit from new markets (overseas) in the future.

Finally, the opportunity provided today to smaller sites will disappear. I believe many of the newer sites are temporary by design. Their entire business model is based on getting open, creating a decent size player database and then cashing out by selling out to one of the giants like Party or Empire.

So, what is the point of me saying all of this? I don't know. I'm just writing off the top of my head right now, and I'm probably wrong on a lot of points. But at the same time, I think now is the golden age of online poker. If you are not playing now, you are missing the boat. If you are not an affiliate now, you are missing the boat. If you are a half-assed affiliate who spends no time building your clientele, you are really missing the boat.

Now is the time to get in and take advantage of all that is availalble. If you're not playing online, click on one of the sites advertised here and get started, or go to my site, www.FreePokerTrips.com, where you can get signed up and get a free two-night stay in Vegas, Atlantic City, or one of 17 other locations.

If you're not currently an affiliate (meaning, someone who recruits players for the poker sites), then visit my site www.PokerSalary.com to find out how to get started. There you'll find out how to get into the poker affiliate business, which requires absolutely no investment other than your good ideas and a little bit of your time. And you won't have to pay for a penny of the information I give you.

Even if you are an affiliate, but one of the half-assed ones I mentioned earlier, head over to www.PokerSalary.com anyway, where you just might pick up a few ideas for jump-starting your business or find a better program or two to promote.

Enough said.

Game in Mt. Sterling

Shortly before I went on my trip, I got an email from from a fellow in Mt. Sterling wanting me to let you know about his game. I don't have any experience with this game personally, but it sounds like he's put quite a bit of thought into it and has come up with a good setup. Here's his description:

You all are invited to come down to the "Pocket Pair" here in Mount Sterling, KY. We used to play on Fridays but have decided to move to Sundays at 5 p.m.

Every Sunday beginning at 5 p.m. our no-limit Texas holdem tournaments are "U" buy tournaments. Whats a "U" buy tournament you ask? You get to decide how many chips you start out with! Your options are as follows:$30 gets you 1,500 chips, $40 gets you 2,000 chips, $50 gets you 3,000 chips, $60 gets you 3,500 chips. NO REBUYS.

Great blind structure ... We have a cap on how high our blinds get depending on the number of players, unlike so many other tournaments where the blinds just keep doubling. We offer realistic blinds that allows poker to be played at the final table instead of just turning into a crapshoot like so many other tournaments offered.

Show up early if you like and play some live action cash games to try and pay for your tournament costs. We provide dealers and use actual poker tables with heavy (11.5 gram) professional chips for our tournaments and cash games. Snacks and drinks (beer and pop) will be provided ... not to mention a chance to earn some money as well.

We are located 30 minutes east of Lexington via I-64. We are located just off Exit 101 (Winchester Road). Turn right off this exit, drive for about 5 minutes and when you see a Citgo gas station on the right you are close. Look for a "GATEWAY CHRISTIAN CHURCH" on your left and once you spot it park there. If you are standing FACING the church, we are the house directly to the right. It's really easy to find. It's a straight stretch to our place so there are no confusing right or left turns along the way. For more directions or if you would just like to ask some questions about anything I might have left out, please feel free to call (859) 585-1390 ask for Bush or Trent. Call us anytime.

Hope to see you this week. Feel free to call and get a head count on how many players are playing if you like. Call (859) 585-1390 on Sundays.

We are looking to start a good $5-$10 limit game and also a $10-$20 limit game if there's enough interest. So if there are any limit players out there as well as pot-limit players, send us an email or just stop in and see what we have to offer! Bring some friends with you and we will take care of you.

I'm back (sob, sob)

I'm back from my mini-vacation. This is what I left behind. I did not want to come back. I especially did not want to come back to work. Now I've done both, I'm pissed.

This little break was good for the soul. Even if it wasn't anywhere near long enough to be completely satisfying, it was wonderful just to get away from home and have a few days of good times with the family. I enjoyed the beach and Disneyworld, but most of all I enjoyed being with my wife and kids.

The whole thing started weird. The plan was to get to bed early, get up at 3 a.m. and be on the road at 4 a.m. As with any good plan, this one was bound to fail, but it did so in a good way.

First, there was no chance of getting to bed early. I ended up working until 11 p.m. the night before, meaning my head didn't hit the pillow until 11:45 p.m. Still, I felt like a good three-hour nap would be just enough to get me through the 750-mile drive the next day and gave it a whirl.

At 1 a.m., with my eyes still wide open, I looked over at my wife, whose eyes were also still wide open, and said, "Screw it. Let's leave right now." So, without any sleep, we got the bags in the car, made those last-minute checks to make sure we had everything, dressed the kids and tossed them in the back seat with blankets and pillows, and we were on the road by 2 a.m.

I had meant to fill up the gas tank beforehand, but didn't get the chance. The car had a little less than three-quarters of a tank, so I just got on the highway and hoped I would run across somewhere with significantly cheaper gas prices along the way. Of course, I knew that somewhere wouldn't be Tennessee, having been warned about gas prices there before hand. So a couple hours later, I'm 23 miles from the North Carolina border watching anxiously as the gas needle slips further and further into the red end of the gauge. We were in my wife's car and she assured me we could make it at least 25 miles or so with the gas we had remaining, so we decided to live on the edge and try to make it to North Carolina. We didn't know that we would have to climb a mountain on par with the Himalayas in those last few miles, just sucking up the gas. We didn't count on there not being a gas station until we were nine miles inside North Carolina. But somehow we made it anyway, even though we had to settle for a Shell station with gas prices slightly more expensive than at home. Oh, and it was closed, too. But it was then I discovered that the pay-at-the-pump feature works even when the station is closed. And, with bladders near bursting, me and the boys were forced to invent a new gas station feature which I will call "pee-at-the-pump." And before we left, my son made sure to close the door on no fewer than three of my fingers, then struggle to comprehend how to unlock his door in order to free me, which is apparently a task that takes a considerable amount of time for an 11-year-old at 4:30 in the morning.

Back on the road, things were fairly uneventful the rest of the trip down. There were a couple of moments where I got very, very sleepy, but I was still so excited that I don't think I was ever in any danger of conking out behind the wheel. At 3 the following afternoon, once again nursing a dwindling gas tank, I pulled our car into our motel in Daytona Beach.

Leaving early gave us an unanticipated extra half-day, so after checking in, we immediately headed for the beach for about an hour, then went on downtown for dinner. There's a pretty decent restaurant on the Main Street Pier, and my wife was very excited to see that they had outdoor seating. As we ate our dinner and watched the waves and the pelicans, a storm moved in and we were treated to a fantastic lightning show while we finished off our meals. I was amazed at the people who continued to head out into the water, despite the lightning. I kept thinking that I might get to see a live version of some future "World's Biggest Idiots Caught on Tape" show, but the storm never got more than closer than a couple of miles from where we were sitting and the hapless beachgoers were spared.

The following day was Disneyworld. It was Disney, what else can I say? Lots of rides, lots of people, lots of heat, lots of dollars flying from my wallet in a continuous green blur, and still, lots of fun. I relived some of my childhood days at Disney, and got to watch my kids experience it for the first time. That was the key part. I've never felt more like superdad than I did that day. And I managed to keep it a secret from the kids all the way until we rolled under the big "Welcome to Disneyworld" gate. I worried that my older son might catch on from the road signs leading into the place, but he brought along a fistful of manga books and was blissfully unaware of his surroundings the entire drive.

The next day was our last full day, and we spent it mostly at the beach, with the prerequisite evening of hunting down souveniers. That night, we had dinner at a wonderful place on Beach Street called Song Mongolian Grill. This was a first for our family, and it was thoroughly enjoyable. If you've not yet made it to a Mongolian barbecue, you have to try it. Think hibachi dinner at a Japanese steakhouse, except you get to pick out all of the ingredients yourself, and it's all-you-can-eat. You just go fill up another bowl and take it to the grill. Sadly, I was stuffed after a mere two bowls. Plus the second bowl, I completely misjudged how much crushed red pepper to add, and spent the rest of the evening sucking down one Pepsi after another, occasionally pausing to press the ice-cold glass to my burning lips.

The next morning, we headed back toward home, opting to take the scenic route via A1A along the coast from Daytona to damn near Jacksonville. I hadn't intended to go that far before heading back to the interstate, but that's what happened. Along the way, we stopped and did a quick tour of Castilla de San Marcos, an 18th century Spanish fort in St. Augustine. Between the tour and the backroads driving, I ended up adding about two hours to the journey home, which really sucks since it was a 13-hour trip to begin with.

I do have to mention dinner on the way home. Speeding along through North Carolina, we decided to set Asheville as a target for stopping to eat. Honestly, considering the amount of money I spent on the trip, I was hoping to stop at a Denny's or maybe even Chick-Fil-A to save a few bucks. But then we got to Hendersonville, which I think is 20 or 30 miles outside of Asheville. I looked up and saw a billboard for "Binion's Roadhouse," with artwork showing a royal flush (spades, if you must know). What the heck, I'm a sucker for a poker-themed marketing gimmick, and I was honestly curious if maybe someone in the Binion family had decided to branch out into restaurants. But no, the restaurant had absolutely nothing to do with the Binions. It was just another roadhouse, with the peanuts on the floor and all, except that it did have some casino memorabilia hanging on the walls. There were also references to someone called "Ole Bob," and I eventually found his story on the walls. It turns out his name was Robert Burton and he was at one time considered the nation's most successful bounty hunter. What this had to do with the poker or casinos was never explained, except that I assume he liked to gamble. In fact, I'm not exactly sure what his relationship to the restaurant is either. But the place had some tasty steaks, and that made it worthwhile.

Other than that, my trip was completely poker-free. Well, driving by the Daytona dog track and noticing that they also offer a poker room, I was tempted to sneak off, but brushed those thoughts aside after taking inventory of both my available cash and my energy level (I discovered the poker room as we returned from Disneyworld). Plus, they can only offer $1-2 limit in Florida, which hardly seemed worth the effort. But maybe someday when I return (and I'm definitely going back) I'll give it a shot.

Oh, there is so much more to write about, but I'm running out of energy. Hopefully tomorrow I can write about all of these changes taking place with online poker rooms. And for my Kentucky readers, I've some info on a weekly game in the Mt. Sterling area. Be back soon.